[Cadre-politics] Fwd: [JoelOnSoftware] My First BillG Review

[Fred G. Martin]

On the Bill Gates thread, here is an interesting essay about software  
project management, and why Bill and Microsoft used to be good at it.

Fred


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> From: "Joel On Software" <fogcreek at whatcounts.com>
> Date: June 16, 2006 1:32:18 AM EDT
> To: fredm at cs.uml.edu
> Subject: [JoelOnSoftware] My First BillG Review
> Reply-To: "Joel On Software"  
> <fogcreek_3B3BC36E4118A5BADF29BC09D4666268 at whatcounts.com>
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> "In those days we used to have these things called BillG reviews.
> Basically every major important feature got reviewed by Bill Gates.
> I was told to send a copy of my spec to his office in preparation
> for the review. It was basically one ream of laser-printed paper."
>
>
> - Read the whole story online:
>   "My First BillG Review"
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
>
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